I like the excited airhorn sound effect for the alien's weapon. Really brought the hype to that scene! Just need a t-shirt cannon or some confetti to go with it. Wouldn't have made the ending more abrupt and surprising. #monsterdon
Aliens heard of confirmed kill but also don't believe in it
Did Tony Craig have any function in this plot? Or was the actor just related to the executive producer and short on funds? So many questions #monsterdon
Okay, here comes the "appreciate to the following" list, these are the people you don't forgive.
You know, I like movies where they don't reveal everything and let the audience figure out, but this one is outrageous lazy.
#monsterdon
This ending was better than Romeo and Juliet at least.
The "Mythbusters" team had add a lot of C4 to get the car to blow-up like that.
I cannot believe Roddy McDowall was in this turd. π
Yay, I can go back to my podcast and sewing! Thanks once again to the lovely @Taweret for the incredible PEW PEW, and you can read that as laser blasts or as someone holding their nose, either way! :D
@RobynGoodfellow @Taweret No! Only when it was FUNNY!
The moral is that Franny has got to get herself out of this town populated by every sort of deplorable specimen of humanity #monsterdon
and the aliens saved the day
and wow it just sort of ends. classic #monsterdon
I appreciate that all of the characters have last names.
Wait, that's it? At least the shelless turtles took the weapon this time.
#monsterdon
"You never outgrow your need for milk!" #Monsterdon #laserblast
#Monsterdon Inconsisitent. The turtle creatures vaporized the last guy. This time they just tanning boothed Billy back to normal. Dead or asleep? Doesnβt matter.
#monsterdon If your Tubi reccomends An American Tail, and its sequel: Fievel Goes West, that's just because it's grouping by films that Leonard Maltin thinks are just as good as this one, Laserblast.
'Can your heart stand the SHOCKING FACTS aboutβ¦Carjackers from Outer Space!?'
Why is she wearing a Boy Scout shirt?
Sure that's the kind of thing I would have worn in high school but I wasn't the kind of person who'd tell their significant other to be more ordinary.
Could do with about 22% less splayage, movie
Is that a stun ray, or what? There's no blood or chunks. Aaaand did the Chelonians forget to pick up their damned laser again? #monsterdon #laserblast
No moral theater.
And, roll those crispy credits. We're done here.
@hollie That would require that an explanation exists
Nobody in this movie seems to be phased by any of the alien stuff!
#Monsterdon
Yeah I don't feel like reading the news anymore, either.
#Monsterdon #LaserBlast
#Monsterdon so this time instead of the gun that vaporizes the bad guy but leaves his weapon intact, they used the gun that vaporizes his weapon but leaves the guy intact
it's taking an awful long time to gun Billy down here, compared to the last time. Logically, they're doing something different.
No, don't think. Thinking would ruins the experience. #monsterdon
Alien turtle butt to the rescue!
Also, death dance reminded me of a similar scene from Liquid Sky.
#monsterdon was Leonard Maltin high when he saw this?
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Chick in the Webalos shirt: don't touch it it's evil!
Billy is a tragic figure, he was just a sweet boy with a nice chest who played with a laser phallus and now he must be eviscerated.
Where did the gun go? #Monsterdon
'Twas <strike>beauty</strike> aliens that killed the beast!
Don't forget the...laserblaster
#monsterdon
Look at that disco outfit on the G-man! #monsterdon
"...well, that should do it. Let's get out of here."
They sure took their time... #monsterdon
Stop motion aliens are, ah, pretty tall.
#Monsterdon meanwhile, his mom is in Acapulco filming 'LaserFinger-blaster.' #Monsterdon
@s20
They're not as popular today as they were then.
The actor portraying Billy would later file for a workmanβs comp claim after dislocating several joints and tearing ligaments from swinging that laserblaster around.
Droopy drawers takes Billy down with extreme prejudice. "My work here is done, peace out" #monsterdon
Oh, the aliens are big!
#Monsterdon #Laserblast
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LASERBLASTED!
Auditioned for the part of 'Chong', washed-out.
It was the 80s.
Everyone wore cowboy hats over helmets when driving.
woah sudden scale shift for Turtle 2
@kshernandez I could tell you a majillion other reasons to not to drive Uber...
The pacing of this #Monsterdon is all over the place but I'm totally here for the slow motion mass destruction!
@RobynGoodfellow oh that was a thing? That sounds like my dream
Ha ha we saw this movie many times but we're better! Faaar out!
#monsterdon #laserblast
"we're not allowed to blow up the prop buildings, so get all the random junk you can and blow that up." #monsterdon
Is billy dancing The Laserblasters Waltz? (Lesser known cousin of the log drivers waltz)
Oh, yeah. I forgot about the Washington dude, with all that laser dancing.
Idk. He just laserblasted a bunch of human beings. I don't know if blowing up a news stand was the climax they thought it was.
whoa... #monsterdon never pick up hitchhikers. Don't driver Uber...
You don't see many candy and paper stores anymore these days. #Monsterdon #Laserblast
Oh the newsstandity! #monsterdon
How did the AirTag make his teeth all pointy like that? #monsterdon
Did I accidentally change the playback speed or has the slow mo gotten even slower?
#Monsterdon #Laserblast
Fake News TAKE THAT! #monsterdon
Hey, at least this movie has a rainbow poster.
Was the rainbow flag a thing when this movie was made?
yay, a mailbox filled with dynamite! #monsterdon
I don't think napalm is particularly sculptable? I always thought it was more of a goo/gel but I've never handled it myself (a friend supposedly made some by accident once, but it was well before we met).
I feel like he should be making more chimpanzee noises. #monsterdon #laserblast
And fuck you news stand!
ok NOW he's done it, the mail cops are gonna shred him
that mailbox shouldda thought about that before it started shit talking billy's mom. #monsterdon
Guess Billy hates reading too
#monsterdon
I hate newsstands! #monsterdon
I'm just gonna ignore how he went from the middle of the desert to somewhere downtown.
Why blow up the star wars sign. dude. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Yeah, take that Star Wars.
You may have an academy award and billions of dollars in total revenue, but do you have a weird gun that makes your skin turn green?
I thought not.
"Should we also do makeup for the chest and arms of our protagonist who is constantly displaying his chest in the scenes where his face turns green?"
"Nah, nobody will notice"
Producer: We need to cut our automobile door budget by 50%. Whoβs got ideas? #Monsterdon
Now zombie ape Billy is just going around shooting all sorts of shit. Phone booths, mailboxes, cars, buildings, the cops. Why? We don't know. Now he is dancing some sort of ballet of destruction around the wreckage. This is filmic storytelling at its best.
In retrospect, Billy's shirtlessness was a regulating factor keeping his blastomania at bay.
Interpretive dance interlude!
This weapon seems like it has some pretty bad drawbacks for say, practice shooting or hunting...
#Monsterdon
The film composer is drunk with power now too #monsterdon
I want to see Billy complete his metamorphosis, but somehow I don't think that's going to happen.
#Monsterdon #Laserblast
Oh, that's a federal offense. The Post Office does not fuck around.
#monsterdon holy shit I thought I was confused BEFORE the hippy van driver started talking.
1. Green makeup. Monster go pew pew.
2. Blast hippy dude. No make up.
3. Drive van with side missing. No make up.
Continuity is as good as pacing.
#monsterdon
I wonder how this movie would do if you synced it with Jesus Christ Superstar. #Monsterdon #laserblast
I feel like this movie is to satisfy that itch that nowadays would be to enter creative mode in minecraft, lay TNT in random places, and light it.
The sheriff's department sure did a terribad job of shutting down the highways leading to the town (or am I the only one who remembers the spook giving that order). #monsterdon
Great scene, but the sheriff cars where already thumbling before the shot
#monsterdon
we're up to 6 now. this is the cars exploding movie
well, at least we're blowing up more cop cars? #monsterdon
Now it feels like weβre on the set of a disaster movie picking up explosion shots.
Billy don't be a hero